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Will demo girls show something with the bugs worked out?
I love how advances in computer technology are changing the ways we humans can communicate. It’s terrific that this very blogpost you are reading here is written with two-finger finger taps on my iPad....
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Touching the Internet
In September, Craig blogged about the wonderful physicality of books. The Internet also has a physical presence, a fact that we likely to forget since so much of it is out of sight (this is...
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Retranslating the “i” in “iPod”
In a rather nasty little sermon in front of the British Queen, Jonathan Sacks, a major rabbi in the UK, has mocked Steve Jobs: The Chief Rabbi [Jonathan Sacks]’s comments are likely to raise eyebrows...
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Downloading NPR–Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz (and other NPR shows)
[This post is wildly off-topic for this blog, but in the hopes that others might find it useful I decided to post it nonetheless. It is also a convenient bookmark for me.] Since 1978, pianist Marian...
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iPads OK for pilots but not for passengers?
From the NYT Bits blog: The Federal Aviation Administration said Tuesday that pilots on American Airlines flights would be allowed to use iPads instead of paper flight manuals in the cockpit starting...
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Spacing after periods
Last night I was re-reading my favorite work by Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies. I have the paperback 1971 (5th) edition published by Princeton University Press. Popper’s work (which...
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Google Translate: redefining translation
We’ve referenced Google Translate or GT (here), and Theophrastus has used it for a post (here). The wonderful translation book (Is That a Fish in Your Ear?) by David Bellos has much to say about GT...
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Big in Japan: Polya’s How to Solve it
In a memorable post on 2011 in the Japanese book industry, Néojaponisme (Matt Treyvaud) mentions that a big seller this year was the 1975 Japanese translation of George Polya’s mathematics book How to...
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Downloading BBC radio streams
BBC produces dozens of excellent radio shows each week, but they are only online for a week, and it is a pain to archive them. Well, now that is much simpler with this excellent (Windows) application:...
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A meme in the making: PayPal orders rare violin destruction
We are watching a meme being created before our very eyes. The story begin yesterday at Regretsy with this letter from a reader: I love your site and was thrilled to hear of your “win” against PayPal....
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Calculator languages
Kraftwerk’s song from their classic Computer World album is the soundtrack to the post: This post is to celebrate the re-introduction of the two of HP’s “Voyager” calculators after 30 years: the HP12C...
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Geekier than thou
So, I wanted to watch 3D movies. I wanted to watch 3D movies but I hate going to movie theaters. It seems that every time I go to a movie theater, the fellow next to me needs to take a call on his cell...
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Is Aristotle dead?
Kurk writes: I think we, in the West, swim in Aristotelianism and methods and syllogistic conclusions to such an extent that we are blind to how big his contributions have been and still are. Maybe....
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The Vatican and the Internet
Timothy’s excellent Catholic Bibles blog had a wonderful posting recently – a portion of Benedict’s post-synodal exhortation Verbum Domini. The post is particularly interesting because it seems that...
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Facebook: we own the word “book”
From Threat Level: Facebook is trying to expand its trademark rights over the word “book” by adding the claim to a newly revised version of its “Statement of Rights and Responsibilities,” the agreement...
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Fine tuning Google translate
From Google’s announcement: So today, we’re launching a new experimental feature (in beta) that lets you customize and improve the way the Website Translator translates your site. Once you add the...
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Les Perelman’s robo-graded essay
The New York Times reports on a competition to develop the best automated essay grading software. The idea is that students taking an essay test (such as the SAT) could have their essays graded by...
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Weird Bibles 4: Digital Handwritten Bible
The People’s Handwritten Bible was created by the Bible Society (England and Wales) and the Scottish Bible Society. It claims to “create a unique legacy for future generations.” It’s your chance to...
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Your Kindle reads you
Here is a disturbing story about how iPads, Kindles, Nooks, and other eReaders monitor your reading behavior and report it back. Excerpt: For centuries, reading has largely been a solitary and private...
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Geeky!
My esteemed co-blogger Suzanne, in her engaging post on Chapter and Verse, mentioned in passing that In my experience, when somebody refers to someone – ostensibly to themselves – as a “geek”, they...
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